I used to love my calculator watch. Then I loved a watch which stored a list of phone numbers in it. Then I loved my Timex Datalink which updated its address book by scanning bar codes off the CRT monitor. That was wild!



If you think about it more, do you really need any of that stuff on your wrist at all any more?

I made that choice after having a smartphone for a little while. It did everything any watch ever did, and more, and I soon realized that I didn't actually want to have something attached to my wrist 24/7. I ditched watches altogether, and never looked back. It made me instantly happier.

For telling time, I don't actually need to know the time of day at an instant glance to my wrist. The only situations where I truly need to know the time, I can usually find a nearby clock in my field of vision, or, take the extra moment to lift up my phone, or extract it from my pocket, and look at it. Maybe I need to know the time less often than other people do.